Barney then goes on to joke that Gordon's MIT education ' really pays for itself.'ĭuring their time at the facility, Freeman and Calhoun would compete with each other to be the first to retrieve Dr. from the prestigious MIT, the laboratory work that the player does as Freeman (pressing a button and pushing a cart) does not require any intellectual expertise at all (Though a possibility is all of his intellectual expenses happened before the events of the game).īarney Calhoun pokes fun at this in the beginning portion of Half-Life 2 when Freeman performs similar 'technical' assistance (pushing a switch and attaching a fallen plug back into a socket). He is assigned to the Anomalous Materials department doing nuclear, subatomic, and quantum research.

He owns a Level 3 Research Associate position, is accommodated in the Level 3 Dormitories in the Black Mesa North Wing, alone in room 309.

Īt the start of Half-Life (on May 16, 200-), Gordon Freeman is 27 years old, who has been working for a while at the Black Mesa Research Facility under a 'classified' administrative sponsor. He accepts, hoping that at least part of the immense funding would go towards civilian applications of astrophysics and quantum computing. Isaac Kleiner has taken charge of a research project at a government-owned, integrated research facility known as the Black Mesa Research Facility and offers Freeman a job. Eventually, he becomes disappointed with the slow pace of teleportation research in academia and begins to search for a job outside the education sector.īy coincidence, Freeman's MIT mentor Dr. Īfter graduating from MIT, Gordon travels to Austria and observes a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck. His thesis was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array (the behavior of large stuff ) (essentially about the teleportation of matter through the use of extremely dense elements). He has no dependents and is a graduate of MIT, having earned a Ph.D. His earliest heroes are Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman. Freeman's letter of acceptance to Black Mesa, written May 5, 200-, as it appears in the instruction manual of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life.Ī native of Seattle, Washington, Freeman harbors an early interest in theoretical physics, such as quantum mechanics and relativity.

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